Introduction Between October 2016 and May 2017, Korean people witnessed a series of breath-taking political events unprecedented in the history of the country. Following a revelation of the so-called Choi Soon-sil gate in October 2016, the National Assembly impeached President Park Geun-hye. The Constitutional Court confirmed the impeachment, and President Park and her top advisers were arrested and put on trial. Moon Jae-in of the opposition party won the presidential election and was sworn in as president in May, 2017. An earlier version of this manuscript was delivered as a keynote speech at the 2018 Korea Update held at Australian National University and at the International Symposium, Building Bridges: Fostering International Research Collaboration in Education held at Nanyang Technological University in 2018. is work was supported by the Seoul National University Research Grant. HeeMin Kim is a Professor of Political Education at Seoul National University, Korea, a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Florida State University, U.S.A., and a Guest Professor in the Institute of Public Diplomacy, Jilin University, China. E-mail: recount01@snu. ac.kr and [email protected] Korea Journal, vol. 59, no. 1 (spring 2019): 5–15. © e Academy of Korean Studies, 2019 On is Topic Corruption, Citizen Resistance, and the Future of Democracy in Korea: An Introduction HeeMin KIM
Corruption, Citizen Resistance, and the Future of Democracy in Korea: An Introduction
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